Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Transformation \Trans`for*ma"tion\, n. [L. transformatio: cf.
   transformation.]
   The act of transforming, or the state of being transformed;
   change of form or condition. Specifically:
   (a) (Biol.) Any change in an organism which alters its
       general character and mode of life, as in the development
       of the germ into the embryo, the egg into the animal, the
       larva into the insect (metamorphosis), etc.; also, the
       change which the histological units of a tissue are prone
       to undergo. See {Metamorphosis}.

Source : WordNet®

transformation
     n 1: a qualitative change [syn: {transmutation}, {shift}]
     2: (mathematics) a function that changes the position or
        direction of the axes of a coordinate system
     3: a rule describing the conversion of one syntactic structure
        into another related syntactic structure
     4: (genetics) modification of a cell or bacterium by the uptake
        and incorporation of exogenous DNA
     5: the act of changing in form or shape or appearance; "a
        photograph is a translation of a scene onto a
        two-dimensional surface" [syn: {translation}]

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

transformation
     
        {program transformation}